AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
No Mushroom Cloud
A fungus offers a complicated lesson in late-capitalist logistics and survival. A review of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World
Cap and Trade
An anthropologist explores the world of matsutake mushroom picking and what it reveals about neoliberal capitalism
The New Inquiry Vol. 49: Interviews
If all writing in public is a form of seduction, then the interview is one of the subtlest come-ons.
Bread and Marginalism
Without a political revolution, you're toast
Sunday Reading
The Super Bowl is the Worst Videogame
Terrifying Robot Update: Thursday, February 4, 2016
This week we're particularly frightened by a thousands-strong swarm of autonomous oceanic robots capable of both underwater movement and flight
Men's Fashion, Eugenics, and Cultural Capital
The suit led to "a remarkable repression of Narcissism among men." So this group of men wanted to get rid of it.
Seconds of Pleasure
Phone games, listicles, masturbation booths, and the return of rational recreation
It's Hip to Eat Mare
One of Paris’s last remaining horse meat butchers discusses the disappearance of his trade
Surveillance notes
It's not monolithic
Sunday Reading
Gang of a Hundred Masked Refugee Children Reportedly Gather in Sweden to 'Punish' Neo-Nazis
City Hunger
A 15th century book shows the entanglement of architecture and appetite
Bitter Medicine
Using mercury poisoning treatments to 'fix' autism punishes children for bearing the mark of an unhealthy society
Human Nature
A new book describing capitalism as an ecological system clarifies the stakes for ending it
Fear of Screens
Why would anyone want to believe that people who are communicating with phones have forgotten what friendship is?
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks